I mainly build cars in SP, and here's my opinion about building cars in SP.
About building cars, we can take a good look at the game "dream car builder".
Just as you say engine, transmission, and drive train. But also tyre model and ball joints.
A better tyre model includes the importance of suspension geometry and also tyre itself as a suspension components. And it would be nice, if we can build the rim with fuselage, let the driveshaft drive the rim, and tyre as an add on.
Ball joints enable us to use less part in suspension, instead of stacking a bunch of rotator on each other.
And also there's connection physics problems with the games. If you connect a little mass object relative to the total mass, the connection will be weekend. And that prevents us from building a realistic weighted components for cars.
And I think it will be awesome to have belts and gears for those mechanical nerds.
@CrashFighter05 I go from around 400 points to 3000 points from just 2 of my work. One is a very serious work that took me 6 months, and another one was build in only purpose of laughing at the truck's design and took me 6 hours.
@sakkijarven
Totally agree on the connection stuff, as of currently it's really difficult to balance between weight and connection strength
And also on the FT inout part, as its pretty weird to not have FT input for a lot of interactable stuff, such as firing guns and wheel brakes.
But also I would wish more FT input in places such as springs/ damper/ ratator dampers (and hopefully rotator springs)
@marcox43 you sure can build good engine
Your v and inline engine was my inspiration to build better engine
I was amazed by how well it work back then, and even now
we have funky tree now my man
So the piston don't have to start at either at top or bottom dead center now
The cycle function can be write using a sin wave, with top dead center be sin(90) and halfway at sin(0/180). And this is how I do this engine.
And even better we can have rotator output it's current position to the piston so it will never jam the engine ever again like this set of engines.
And lately I found out we could use control base instead of piston to push, and improves power per weight a lot.
So basically I have done some developing on the art of piston engine and above are my trade secret.
@XEPOH
My opinion is that we shouldn't have to use custom prop to have all this. Because as you stated it would be too demanding and I totally agree. I just think there could be a option to have all the stuff integrated into the prop part
@Solent19 I get what you mean, but have you by chance never saw post war british military planes?
This planes at most looks like somebody design it in simpleplanes, which is not the worst thing that can happen to a plane
add FT brake input on wheels
springs with FT input (air suspension or electronic damper), option to disable spring to become a prismatic joint with travel limit. Proper Ball joint with travel limit. Custom travel limit like +25 -75. Dampermultiplyer option in menu
Also my wishlist, revamped engine with rotational output, gears and belts, wheel that take actual rotational input instead of magic power, differential and clutch. Or basically the whole Gear Blocks game
@Graingy I think it is because the limit
The mechanic of engine getting stuck is that the crank shaft lag too much behind the piston due to load, so much that before the crank shaft turn to appropriate position the piston was already in the next stroke.
I think the only way out of this is have some way to sync the crank shaft sith the piston, which is not too hard.
I think with V6 V8 or radial kinda helps, but still have the ability to get stuck like in this plane
Take a look of my engine or other engine build if you want
@uden10
Using fuselage slice feature would surely help.
With most of the panel I would normally use add section longitudinally, would work better with smoothing feature too.
I would use most of the block with hard corner because it's far easier to align, use other corner if you know you can pull it off and normally just one of the corners, either by careful alignment or alot of segment for the section.
Also spend way too much time to align all the panels.
If we gonna use the website for SP2 down the line, I think it'll be worthwhile to update the website a bit. With the biggest problem being the search, it kinda bad.
and with tags, ill be nice to search with multiple tags and also search from it.
My criteria are simple, if there's ROC stuff, I will upvote.
+2I mainly build cars in SP, and here's my opinion about building cars in SP.
About building cars, we can take a good look at the game "dream car builder".
Just as you say engine, transmission, and drive train. But also tyre model and ball joints.
A better tyre model includes the importance of suspension geometry and also tyre itself as a suspension components. And it would be nice, if we can build the rim with fuselage, let the driveshaft drive the rim, and tyre as an add on.
Ball joints enable us to use less part in suspension, instead of stacking a bunch of rotator on each other.
And also there's connection physics problems with the games. If you connect a little mass object relative to the total mass, the connection will be weekend. And that prevents us from building a realistic weighted components for cars.
And I think it will be awesome to have belts and gears for those mechanical nerds.
+2@CrashFighter05 I go from around 400 points to 3000 points from just 2 of my work. One is a very serious work that took me 6 months, and another one was build in only purpose of laughing at the truck's design and took me 6 hours.
guess which do better
+2ｔｈｅ ｍａｐ？
+2he look like he's hurt
+1should had have the funny tag
+1@sakkijarven
+1Totally agree on the connection stuff, as of currently it's really difficult to balance between weight and connection strength
And also on the FT inout part, as its pretty weird to not have FT input for a lot of interactable stuff, such as firing guns and wheel brakes.
But also I would wish more FT input in places such as springs/ damper/ ratator dampers (and hopefully rotator springs)
I maybe interested, but would like to use piston engine like this which would require LimitlessSpin.
+1Could that still be within the rule?
@ShinyGemsBro planes? like flying?
+1nah we dont do that here
ur hellcat looks funny
+1based vehicle
+1how to make custom prop be rotatable yet stayed on instead of flying away due to centrifugal force?
+1@marcox43 you sure can build good engine
+1Your v and inline engine was my inspiration to build better engine
I was amazed by how well it work back then, and even now
we have funky tree now my man
+1So the piston don't have to start at either at top or bottom dead center now
The cycle function can be write using a sin wave, with top dead center be sin(90) and halfway at sin(0/180). And this is how I do this engine.
And even better we can have rotator output it's current position to the piston so it will never jam the engine ever again like this set of engines.
And lately I found out we could use control base instead of piston to push, and improves power per weight a lot.
So basically I have done some developing on the art of piston engine and above are my trade secret.
@YarisSedan yoo chill
+1cappie best girl
+1@ShinyGemsBro pray for the people of Jundrooverse
+1Omg i love french car
+1lol the text radio is really cool
+1welcome back legend
+1@XEPOH
+1My opinion is that we shouldn't have to use custom prop to have all this. Because as you stated it would be too demanding and I totally agree. I just think there could be a option to have all the stuff integrated into the prop part
absolute cinima
+1@AddictiveSPboy this looks like old school build from 2014
+1cool conversion
+1good to see someone join the piston engine rabbit hole
+1why is the wear wheel steering
+1beautiful car
+1how to upshift?
+1@DISHWASHER2005 yours true simpleplanes driving experience
+1@Solent19 I get what you mean, but have you by chance never saw post war british military planes?
+1This planes at most looks like somebody design it in simpleplanes, which is not the worst thing that can happen to a plane
nice air intake
+1All picture died, rip
+1@LunarEclipseSP I'm thinking about that too
+1finally I can play SP on my microwave
+1this is the essential SP experience
+1any explaination on the camera? it feels like magic
+1you built WHAT in simpleplanes?
+1add FT brake input on wheels
springs with FT input (air suspension or electronic damper), option to disable spring to become a prismatic joint with travel limit. Proper Ball joint with travel limit. Custom travel limit like +25 -75. Dampermultiplyer option in menu
Also my wishlist, revamped engine with rotational output, gears and belts, wheel that take actual rotational input instead of magic power, differential and clutch. Or basically the whole Gear Blocks game
But yeah single craft multiplayer is a good call
+1welcome to 2019
+1@Graingy I think it is because the limit
+1The mechanic of engine getting stuck is that the crank shaft lag too much behind the piston due to load, so much that before the crank shaft turn to appropriate position the piston was already in the next stroke.
I think the only way out of this is have some way to sync the crank shaft sith the piston, which is not too hard.
I think with V6 V8 or radial kinda helps, but still have the ability to get stuck like in this plane
Take a look of my engine or other engine build if you want
lemme just download those robuck real quick
+1@uden10
+1Using fuselage slice feature would surely help.
With most of the panel I would normally use add section longitudinally, would work better with smoothing feature too.
I would use most of the block with hard corner because it's far easier to align, use other corner if you know you can pull it off and normally just one of the corners, either by careful alignment or alot of segment for the section.
Also spend way too much time to align all the panels.
this plane has that SP logo plane energy
+1cool plane, questionable landing gear design. Can anyone explain this to me if it's legit?
+1red bar of soap
+1a day to have eyes indeed
+1the world needs to see this
+1lol
+1If we gonna use the website for SP2 down the line, I think it'll be worthwhile to update the website a bit. With the biggest problem being the search, it kinda bad.
+1and with tags, ill be nice to search with multiple tags and also search from it.
this brake my understanding on hinges and piston
+1great work